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Medical Equipment Costs Strain Cancer Survivors’ Finances

Physician's Weekly

prevalence of equipment use in 2018 was much lower than previously reported rates of mobility disability (27.9%) among cancer survivors, indicating issues with access,” they add. Almost half of hospital case managers have reported difficulties obtaining equipment for Medicare beneficiaries, the researchers noted. Of these, 10.2

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Approaches for Quelling Stigma related to COVID-19

BMJ

Associate Professor & Dr. Longtao He, Research Institute of Social Development, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China. Shaanxi, Xi’an, China: Shaanxi Normal University; 2018. Address: 55 Guanghuacun Road, Chengdu City, 610074, China. Scholars such as Wen et al. Doctorate [dissertation].

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Well, there’s my complaint. Nate 14:25 Oh.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

But when the Trump administration proposed merging it with NIH in 2018, a House-ordered study into health research priorities validated AHRQ’s valuable role. He and Harvard colleague Celeste Royce have sued AHRQ, HHS , and the Office of Personnel Management over removal of the article. Now, the naysayers have triumphed.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law

In 2018, Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs , but the edifice envisioned by the Blueprint largely failed to materialize. Finally, the HHS plan encourages Congress to create incentives to foster scientific innovation.

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Episode 127: WDx special episode with Mel Fellay, Zari Zahra & CPSolvers

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Founded in 2018, Melanie and co-founder and former colleague, Zari Zahra, created Spekit to address the pain points they felt around driving adoption and continuous training that many Enablement and Operations leaders feel as well by bringing the sophistication of a modern digital adoption platform with the simplicity of a contextual knowledge base.